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Following talks with the unions, the BBC confirmed yesterday it plans to cut 108 jobs from BBC News, making a saving of £11m by March next year.
Reports suggest 39 jobs will go from TV news, two from political programmes, 18 from radio, two from current affairs radio, 22 from newsgathering, six from news production facilities and 19 from news interactive.
The job cuts make up the final year of director general Mark Thompson's three-year "Value for Money" efficiency initiative. In its first year of 2005, 220 voluntary redundancies were made, with a further 100 made this year.
A statement from the BBC said: "We intend once again to begin a process of seeking volunteers for redundancy. Unfortunately we cannot rule out the possibility of compulsory redundancies but we have managed so far to achieve most of our savings through volunteers, natural turnover and maximising redeployment opportunities and we will of course continue to take that approach."
The announcement yesterday came on the same day the corporation revealed its new £1.2m idents for BBC One, which see the familiar 'Dancers' replaced with a revolving circle theme.
Rachel Atwell, deputy head of BBC Television News with management responsibility for BBC News 24, BBC World and production across TV News, has already decided to leave the corporation after a 30 year relationship.
Atwell started as production secretary on Radio 4's Woman's Hour in 1973, moving to TV in 1982 on Nationwide. Since then she has worked on the 1983 launch of Breakfast Time, and after a short spell at Channel 4, returned to BBC World in 1992 as deputy editor, then editor.
Atwell told Broadcast: "I am very proud what we have achieved in TV News over the past six years.
"The BBC has given me a wonderful career both in radio and then in TV, but, after over thirty years, it's the time to move on and look for new opportunities for my own third age."
Meanwhile BBC News 24's rival, Sky News, has beaten the channel to win an Emmy award for its breaking news coverage of the July 7 bombings. The prize was handed out at a ceremony in New York on Monday.
Reports suggest 39 jobs will go from TV news, two from political programmes, 18 from radio, two from current affairs radio, 22 from newsgathering, six from news production facilities and 19 from news interactive.
The job cuts make up the final year of director general Mark Thompson's three-year "Value for Money" efficiency initiative. In its first year of 2005, 220 voluntary redundancies were made, with a further 100 made this year.
A statement from the BBC said: "We intend once again to begin a process of seeking volunteers for redundancy. Unfortunately we cannot rule out the possibility of compulsory redundancies but we have managed so far to achieve most of our savings through volunteers, natural turnover and maximising redeployment opportunities and we will of course continue to take that approach."
The announcement yesterday came on the same day the corporation revealed its new £1.2m idents for BBC One, which see the familiar 'Dancers' replaced with a revolving circle theme.
Rachel Atwell, deputy head of BBC Television News with management responsibility for BBC News 24, BBC World and production across TV News, has already decided to leave the corporation after a 30 year relationship.
Atwell started as production secretary on Radio 4's Woman's Hour in 1973, moving to TV in 1982 on Nationwide. Since then she has worked on the 1983 launch of Breakfast Time, and after a short spell at Channel 4, returned to BBC World in 1992 as deputy editor, then editor.
Atwell told Broadcast: "I am very proud what we have achieved in TV News over the past six years.
"The BBC has given me a wonderful career both in radio and then in TV, but, after over thirty years, it's the time to move on and look for new opportunities for my own third age."
Meanwhile BBC News 24's rival, Sky News, has beaten the channel to win an Emmy award for its breaking news coverage of the July 7 bombings. The prize was handed out at a ceremony in New York on Monday.
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